Deck/Patio Project

Bill has been working on this deck and patio project off and on. It's the part most dreaded of the landscaping all around the house. I think he liked doing our little 8' x 8' deck. We wanted it just big enough to walk straight out from the screened porch to grill. We'll have steps down all around the 2 open sides. There won't be any other railing except a hand rail.

You can see in the 2nd picture that we had a basement window well to work around. We were saying that if the deck could've gone all the way over to the house, we could've had a food & drink pass through with the kitchen window being right there! We could've put the deck all the way over but didn't want to totally block the light coming in that egress window to the basement.

We have just the smallest gas grill for the 2 of us. We didn't need all the side burners and warmers and other grill bells and whistles!

Out from the deck will be gray patio block to where you see Bill digging. The patio will be small too since we don't plan to have a bunch of furniture sitting out to blow over in the wind and get dirty when we can sit in the screened porch away from bugs.

Bill dug this patio area out today mostly with the backhoe. Now it has to be filled with gravel and then sand for these 16" patio blocks to lay on.